A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala - Namyalo, Saudah; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Kiriggwajjo, Anatole; Atuhairwe, Amos; Molochieva, Zarina; Gimbo Mukama, Ruth; Zellers, Margaret
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This book is a dictionary and grammar sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala, a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by over 200,000 people in central Uganda. The dictionary part includes about 10,000 entries. Each lexical entry provides translations into English, example sentences, and basic grammatical information. The dictionary part is supplemented with an outline of the Ruruuli-Lunyala grammar, which treats most of the phonological and morpho-syntactic topics. This book is a result of a joined effort of a large team of linguists and many speakers of Ruruuli-Lunyala and is intended as a resource for linguists and Ruruuli-Lunyala speakers, learners, and educators.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book is a dictionary and grammar sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala, a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by over 200,000 people in central Uganda. The dictionary part includes about 10,000 entries. Each lexical entry provides translations into English, example sentences, and basic grammatical information. The dictionary part is supplemented with an outline of the Ruruuli-Lunyala grammar, which treats most of the phonological and morpho-syntactic topics. This book is a result of a joined effort of a large team of linguists and many speakers of Ruruuli-Lunyala and is intended as a resource for linguists and Ruruuli-Lunyala speakers, learners, and educators.
Autorenporträt
Saudah Namyalo is a senior lecturer of Linguistics at Makerere University (Uganda). She is committed to promote and preserve endangered languages and cultures: She has documented the art of barkcloth making among the Baganda, the disappearing legends of Banyala, compiled a dictionary of Luganda proverbs and idioms, and a dictionary of English-Luganda linguistics terms. Since 2008, she has been working on terminological empowerment of Ugandäs indigenous languages so that they too can be used in communicating science and technology. She has also worked on topics of language rights and studied language and linguistics issues related to access to health care and how best to harness multilingual repertoires in multilingual contexts.